High Commissioner’s Strategic Management Plan 2010-2011 High Commissioner’s Strategic Management Plan 2010-2011 The designations employed and the presentation of the material in this report do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights concerning the legal status of any country, territory, city or area, or of its authorities, or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries. Mission Statement The mission of the Office of the United Nations High General Assembly in resolution 48/141, the Charter Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) is to work of the United Nations, the Universal Declaration of for the promotion and protection of all human rights Human Rights and subsequent human rights for all people; to help empower people to realize instruments, the 1993 Vienna Declaration and their rights and to assist those responsible for Programme of Action, and the 2005 World Summit upholding such rights in ensuring that they are Outcome Document. implemented. In carrying out its mission OHCHR will: u Give priority to addressing the most pressing Operationally, OHCHR works with governments, human rights violations, both acute and chronic, legislatures, courts, national institutions, civil society, particularly those that put life in imminent peril. regional and international organizations, and the u Focus attention on those who are at risk and United Nations system to develop and strengthen vulnerable on multiple fronts. capacity, particularly at the national level, for the u Pay equal attention to the realization of civil, promotion and protection of human rights in cultural, economic, political, and social rights, accordance with international norms. including the right to development. u Measure the impact of its work through the Institutionally, OHCHR is committed to strengthening substantive benefit that is accrued through it to the United Nations human rights programme and to individuals around the world. providing it with the highest quality support. OHCHR is committed to working closely with its United OHCHR, a part of the United Nations Secretariat, is Nations partners to ensure that human rights form the guided in its work by the mandate provided by the bedrock of the work of the United Nations. HIGH COMMISSIONER’S STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT PLAN 2010-2011 3 Contents Foreword by the High Commissioner ............................................................................................7 About OHCHR ..................................................................................................................................9 I. Strategic Priorities.....................................................................................................................15 Introduction ...................................................................................................................................16 Changes in the Global Context: Opportunities and Challenges for OHCHR..........................................17 Key Results and Lessons Learned......................................................................................................19 Thematic Priorities and Strategies.....................................................................................................22 u Countering discrimination, in particular racial discrimination, discrimination on the grounds of sex, religion and against others who are marginalized.......................................................22 u Combating impunity and strengthening accountability, the rule of law and democratic society.......25 u Pursuing economic, social and cultural rights and combating inequalities and poverty, including in the context of the economic, food and climate crises ............................................27 u Protecting human rights in the context of migration ................................................................30 u Protecting human rights in situations of armed conflict, violence and insecurity..........................33 u Strengthening human rights mechanisms and the progressive development of international human rights law ...............................................................................................................36 Global Management Outputs ..........................................................................................................38 Results Monitoring Framework .........................................................................................................39 II. Programme of Work.................................................................................................................41 Supporting the Human Rights Treaty Bodies ......................................................................................42 Supporting the Human Rights Council and its Special Procedures ........................................................44 Human Rights Mainstreaming, Right to Development, Research and Analysis........................................51 Advisory Services and Technical Cooperation ...................................................................................58 Field Activities ...............................................................................................................................62 u Africa ...............................................................................................................................64 u Americas ..........................................................................................................................86 u Asia and the Pacific .........................................................................................................100 u Europe and Central Asia ..................................................................................................110 u Middle East and North Africa............................................................................................118 Executive Direction and Management.............................................................................................124 u Civil Society Liaison .........................................................................................................124 u Donor and External Relations ............................................................................................124 u Communications ..............................................................................................................125 u New York Office..............................................................................................................127 u Policy, Planning Monitoring and Evaluation ........................................................................128 Programme Support and Management Services...............................................................................129 Funds Administered by OHCHR.....................................................................................................131 III. Budget and Funding Requirements ......................................................................................135 HIGH COMMISSIONER’S STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT PLAN 2010-2011 5 Annexes.........................................................................................................................................145 1. Thematic Expected Accomplishments......................................................................................146 2. Field Presences’ Thematic Priorities and Results .......................................................................149 3. Expected Accomplishments and Indicators..............................................................................153 4. Global Management Outputs and Monitoring Framework ........................................................157 5. Organizational Chart...........................................................................................................158 List of Acronyms ...........................................................................................................................159 6 HIGH COMMISSIONER’S STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT PLAN 2010-2011 Foreword by the High Commissioner I am pleased to present my Office’s third Strategic Management Plan for the biennium 2010-2011. In accordance with past practice, the SMP embodies our plan for the advancement of human rights and the ideals of the United Nations. It adheres to and follows the human rights’ section of the UN Secretary-General’s Strategic Framework, and assimilates all the various strands of OHCHR’s work in order to bolster consistency and office-wide coordination in implementing the Framework and ensure the best possible use of resources. While ensuring continuity in the Office’s overall strategic direction, the new Plan, the first under my stewardship as High Commissioner, both builds on OHCHR’s past experience and lessons learned, and factors in changes in the human rights environment. Events of the past biennium have repercussions for OHCHR in many ways. For example, the global economic, food and climate crises have significant implications for the work of OHCHR, as they exacerbate poverty and discrimination against vulnerable groups in many countries. On the positive side, several important new international human rights treaties have been adopted and the Human Rights Council is now fully functional, especially with the Universal Periodic Review half-way through its first cycle. Other developments that will have wide-ranging implications for OHCHR’s